928 private quotes tagged health

“You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.” — Mehmet Oz

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“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.” — Meryl Streep

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“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.” — Robert Hall

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“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.” — Theodor Adorno

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“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” — Walter Cronkite

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“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.” — Salman Rushdie

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“Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.” — Ivan Illich

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“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.” — Jean Paul

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“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.” — Michelle Obama

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“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.” — Abraham Maslow

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“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.” — Carol Bellamy

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“Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.” — Diane Abbott

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“I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'” — Lauren Bacall

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“There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.” — Arlen Specter

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“Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.” — Quentin Crisp

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“Health food makes me sick.” — Calvin Trillin

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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” — Joseph Addison

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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” — Adam Ant

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